10 Terrible Booking Decisions From WWE Survivor Series 2016

7. The Tag Team Elimination Order

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WWE has some really great tag teams on the main roster, and the ones waiting in the wings down in NXT might be even better. So of course the best way to showcase all that new talent is by having them be the last teams standing in the elimination match, right?

Except that’s not what happened. I can understand eliminating New Day since they’ve been on top for so long, and Slater and Rhyno because, well, they’re Slater and Rhyno. And regardless of whether or not anyone wants to admit it, Gallows and Anderson are completely dead in the water. But there is absolutely no excuse for American Alpha not to be SmackDown’s final team in the ring in place of The Usos.

I love the Usos, and did even before their reinvigorating heel turn, but these guys have been in WWE for what feel like 34 years while American Alpha is a force to be reckoned with and new to most of the audience. Why not give them the rub of having them go down swinging for the SmackDown teams?

And while we’re on the subject of that match…

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